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Immodest Proposals | |||||
William Tenn | |||||
NESFA Press, 618 pages | |||||
A review by Nick Gevers
Tenn, whose real name is Philip Klass (and whose brother, the less well-known SF writer Morton Klass, recently died), is the son of a Jewish Marxist
radical, and both components of that heritage show to good effect in his
many audacious and hilarious fables and brief satiric future histories. The
skeptical colloquial richness of Jewish humour and folklore distinguishes
"My Mother Was A Witch" and "On Venus, Have We Got a Rabbi"; but
given the generalized magazine markets for which Tenn wrote, that element
is usually held in the background, manifesting itself in a certain robust
quirkiness of insight and diction. Less dissembled is his Marxism, which (at
times surprisingly, considering that he appeared in, among other
publications, John W. Campbell's rather reactionary Astounding) shows in
biting ideological parody, whimsically savage parables against war and
imperialism, and powerfully subversive oppositions of human and alien. In
Tenn's hands, SF became a tool of ambitious social and political criticism;
but his inventiveness and diabolically sharp wit made his polemics so
dazzlingly beguiling, so original and disorienting, that they swept the SF
world off its feet. As he moved into teaching, Tenn wrote less and less, and
by the Seventies very little indeed; for some years, however, he was one of
the most brilliant satirists in SF, rivalling Robert Sheckley, Fredric Brown,
Frederik Pohl, and C. M. Kornbluth.
Immodest Proposals is divided, with some logic, into five sections.
"Aliens, Aliens, Aliens" presents seven strong stories, ranging in seriousness
from "The Ghost Standard", a slight but nifty variation on the
cannibalism-in-a-lifeboat theme, through the knowing farce of "Lisbon Cubed" and
"Party of the Two Parts" (in which alien espionage and pornography trading
are rendered with screwball zaniness), on through the ingenious "The
Flat-Eyed Monster" and "Firewater", exercises in the perspectival inversion by
which the alien may in some sense be understood, through to "The Deserter"
and the novella "Venus and the Seven Sexes", scathing analyses of
militarism and cargo-cult culture possessing great bite even now. Tenn had a
great gift for the representation of the bizarrely alien, a technique in which
his exemplar was apparently Henry Kuttner; few writers then and now could
make the concept of super-intelligent flying bottles truly succeed.
But much of the meat of this volume is to be found in Part Two, "Immodest
Proposals". This is where Tenn's satiric voice attains its sharpest edge, in
narratives of human folly as viewed by some omniscient cynic from an
Olympian height. The famous short story "The Liberation of Earth" blasts
the behaviour of the 50s superpowers through the marvellous analogy of a
future Earth fought over by conflicting galactic empires; "Eastward Ho!"
sends White Americans fleeing before the irresistible Red Indian tide;
"Null-P" (a play on Van Vogt's Null-A) allows mediocrity to become humanity's
guiding principle, with a horrifying outcome; "The Masculinist Revolt",
written in 1961, sinisterly echoes the Feminist Movement that actually
resulted; and "Brooklyn Project" shoots the National Security mentality of
the postwar period so full of holes that it's astonishing it (mentality or story,
take your pick) managed to survive. The transformation sequence in
"Brooklyn Project" remains one of the most gleefully unsettling prose
passages in the entire SF canon.
Part Three, "Some Odd Ones", cannot quite sustain the vigour of the
previous sections; its highlights are "The Tenants", all about the hiring of
central urban office space by otherworldly individuals, one of whom keeps
his fellow in his pocket, and "Down Among the Dead Men", a harrowing
description of the meeting of a space naval officer with his accusingly
undead crew. Less exhilarating, although readable enough, are "Child's
Play" and its sequel "Wednesday's Child", mock-horrific examinations of
Frankensteinian people-engineering and its consequences, "Generation of
Noah", an anti-nuclear scare story, and "The Lemon-Green Spaghetti-Loud
Dynamite-Dribble Day", an eyewitness's testimony regarding mass
misbehaviour after LSD is fed into New York's water supply. Modest
stuff, but full of sparkle.
"Winthrop Was Stubborn", the novella that concludes Part Four of
Immodest Proposals ("The Future") is an astonishing tour-de-force, a
venture by a group of fairly average 20th century Americans five
hundred years forward in time. They are frustrated, manipulated, harried,
and bamboozled by almost everything they encounter (Tenn's elaborate
satirical inventions flow thick and fast throughout); they have an agonising
imperative to return to the mundane Present; but one of their number will not
co-operate, and time travel soon seems a dubious blessing. The same
indefatigable liveliness invigorates "Time in Advance" (what if criminals
served their sentences before their crimes?) and "The Servant Problem", a
quite extraordinary meditation on the circular dilemmas of power in a
totalitarian state. "The Sickness", "A Man of Family", "Project Hush", and
"The Jester" are minor and dated by comparison; but the competition is
exceedingly strong.
In Part Five, "Out There", quieter, more contemplative stories stand out.
"The Dark Star" reassesses space travel in obvious yet curiously surprising
terms; "The Custodian" is the journal of the last man (and the last aesthete)
on Earth, a haunting piece reminiscent of Robert Silverberg at his elegiac
best. "Consulate" and "Alexander the Bait" are impressive in concept but
possibly play too fast and loose with probability; "The Last Bounce" and
"Venus is a Man's World" have strength in irony but the weakness of
outdated premises. But then "On Venus, Have We Got a Rabbi" intervenes,
to show that even the oldest assumptions are perhaps more timeless than we
think, and will make the future in their own, in this case distinctly rabbinical,
Immodest Proposals is an immodestly brilliant, as well as an immodestly
large, anthology, and may well turn out to be the most significant SF
collection of 2001. The opposition is certainly capable, but in the end, only
Here Comes Civilization, the forthcoming second volume of the Complete
William Tenn, may be a convincing rival.
Since completing a Ph.D. on uses of history in SF, Nick Gevers has become a moderately prolific reviewer and interviewer in the field of speculative fiction. He has published in INTERZONE, NOVA EXPRESS, the NEW YORK REVIEW OF SF, and GALAXIES; much of his work is available at INFINITY PLUS, of which he is Associate Editor. He lives in Cape Town, South Africa. |
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SotD: The FABULOUS Dior Homme Intense.
Opus Oils Dirty Sexy Wilde
Caron Yatagan
Encre Noire by Lalique
Lot's of vetiver up-in-here isn't there? And ComDiva, I almost wore Sous le Vent myself...nice to see we're still scent-twins (in thought) sometimes.
Today, I went to the doctors office for my annual physical, blood work, etc...so, it was something basic and non-offensive...
Vetiver (vintage EdT + shower gel + after shave balm) by Guerlain
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SotE - Minotaure.
First wearing of Gianfranco Ferre's Acqua Azzurra. So far, so wonderful!!
Tom Ford Arabian Wood
In lieu of my birthday..
Millésime Impérial
Top Notes: Bergamot, Green Mandarin, Lemon
Heart Notes: Iris, Sea Scent
Base Notes: Sandalwood, Amber, Musk
This is rare for me but, i can't decide betwee CK Euphoria or Channel Platinum Egoiste. Its hot as hell today and I might be tempted to by my glorious Mandarina Duck Man on. I will have to decide after I shower.
Is the juice worth the squeeze?
Passage d'Enfer
Enjoy the little things, for one day you may look back and realize they were the big things.
~ Robert Brault
Montale Aoud Lime
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Bath and Body Works ~ White Citrus
SotE Montgomary Taylor - Paratus sample
Second day in a row of Grey Flannel.
That girl, that bottle, that mattress and me.
"It's not what you look like when you're doing what you're doing; it's what you're doing when you're doing what you look like you're doing."
Chanel Allure Homme
Marc Jacobs for Men from a sample I got even though I wound up scoring a 75ml later in the day for cheap. Great for the scorching hot days in AZ....
Richard James Saville Row
In a world where people smell bad, it is the personal responsibility of every Basenoter to improve the world one SotD at a time...
Byredo Fantastic Man
Scent of the Evening ESCALE AUX MARQUISES de Monsieur Dior
Habit Rouge Beau Cavalier.
Benetton Cumbia Colors Men
A unike sent.....
Merlin is my Hero.....
Habit Rouge Beau Cavalier
Its late and its already tomorrow today but Carnal Flower again
Narciso Rodriguez for him musc collection
Well hello Hyde65. I'm your scent twin today.
It's my first sampling of Creed's Royal Water. I don't know what to think yet. I don't care much for the opening - 15 minutes later it is nice but nothing extraordinary. At least on me it seems to be quite masculine - I am getting a lot of juniper and musk with only a hint of the mint, verbena, and florals to soften it up.
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Santal Noble by Maître Parfumeur et Gantier
A*Men Pure Malt
"Nothing breaks up a team faster than.. Herpes"
-- Top --
(1) Guerlain Tonka Imperiale (2) Creed Millesime Imperial
(3) Creed Silver Mountain Water (4) Creed Aventus
(5) Creed Green Irish Tweed (6) Thierry Mugler A*Men Pure Malt
(7) Amouage Reflection Man
Chanel No. 5 Eau Premiere
Cartier's Declaration Pour Homme
CREED Vetiver
My girlfriend attacked me this morning with serge luten's A la Nuit right when I got out of the shower, which Ive enjoyed smelling all day.
Finishing up the day in Bowling Green
These things cannot be long hidden: the Sun, the Moon, the Truth--Buddha
Aus Lieb Zum Duft No. 1 today and Chanel Antaeus this evening!
I'm a colognosaurus. Rawr!
Givenchy Play Intense. A great fragrance!
Is the juice worth the squeeze?
Bal a Versailles (vintage Eau de Cologne) by Jean Desprez
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Geoffrey Beene Grey Flannel (1975) André Fromentin Oriental
•Top Notes: Galbanum, Petitgrain, Neroli, Bergamot, Lemon •Middle Notes: Violet, Rose, Narcissus, Mimosa, Iris, Sage, Geranium •Base Notes: Cedarwood, Vetiver, Oakmoss, Tonka Bean, Almond
Dredged this up out of the distant past because I saw the review in Turin's book. It really is an extraordinary scent, and I remember that when it was introduced it was very controversial. (Am I revealing my age here?) It was a novel use of green notes in the top to overwhelm the citrus, and the sweet floral notes and almondy, slightly powdery drydown seemed out of character with the rest of the scent. I guess we would now say that Grey Flannel's nose, André Fromentin, was a visionary. A leap of the olfactory imagination, for sure.
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Yr good bud,
"Why spend life seeking that which does not satisfy? Why remain a slave, when freedom waits? Let your life shine; illumine the world with your truth!"
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Fiat justitia ruat cælum.
Let justice be done, even if the sky should fall.
Lucius Calpurnius Piso Caesoninus
Qui nihil potest sperare, desperet nihil.
Let him who can hope for nothing despair of nothing.
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OLR Bill Analysis
This bill adds to the factors that the Department of Public Health's (DPH) Office of Health Care Access (OHCA) must consider when evaluating a certificate of need (CON) application, whether the applicant has satisfactorily demonstrated that the proposal is consistent with the overall goals of federal health care reform.
Generally, the law requires a health care facility to apply for a CON when it proposes to (1) establish a new facility or provide new services, (2) change ownership, (3) purchase or acquire certain equipment, or (4) terminate certain services.
Current law requires OHCA, when reviewing a CON application, to consider:
1. whether the proposal is consistent with any applicable policies and standards in DPH regulations;
2. the relationship of the proposal to the statewide health care facilities and services plan;
3. whether there is a clear public need for the proposed health care facility or services;
4. whether the applicant has satisfactorily demonstrated how the proposal will affect the financial strength of the state's health care system or that it is financially feasible for the applicant;
5. whether the applicant has satisfactorily demonstrated how the proposal will improve the quality, accessibility, and cost-effectiveness of healthcare delivery in the region;
6. the applicant's past and proposed provision of health care services to relevant patient populations and payer mix;
7. whether the applicant has satisfactorily identified the population to be served by the proposal and satisfactorily demonstrated that the identified population needs the proposed services;
8. the utilization of existing health care facilities and health care services in the applicant's service area; and
9. whether the applicant has satisfactorily demonstrated that the proposal will not result in an unnecessary duplication of existing or approved health care services or facilities.
The office, as it deems necessary, may revise or supplement these guidelines and principles through regulation.
EFFECTIVE DATE: July 1, 2013
Public Health Committee
Joint Favorable Substitute
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Durian is the true king of fruits.
Durian is the true king of fruits.
Yup. Working in the bath section for a summer totally ruined my illusions about life and all its towels.
I grew up in Wawa, PA, with a bunch of the company heads. It's mostly a family business, and everyone related to the company is awesome. Long live Wawa!
I don't know about "gay", but he's always looked like a stereotypical Disney villain to me. So creepy.
This just prompted a five minute laughing fit. I tried to explain what was so funny, but nobody else got it.
#12 is such a babe.
Can't wait to try some of these! Forgot the link for #8 though.
I've had 1, 2, 3, 6, and 9; durian is actually one of my favorite fruits. Living in China has exposed me to more food than I'd ever imagined possible, and some of them are damn good.
She tries way too hard.
I just tried this and got a bunch of pictures of dying grandparents.
How can anyone afford this shit?
IDGAF about the eyebrows, but his skin color in the second picture is absolutely terrifying. Bad self-tanner, mismatched foundation, or jaundice?


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In just one week, the world's top male snowboarders will descend on Park City Mountain Resort to compete in a never-before-seen competition format for $50,000 in cash! It's the Intelligent Design at Park City and we're taking Pick 'N Shovel Terrain Park and the Eagle Superpipe and melding them into one unique course with jibbing, jumping, a superpipe and a massive quarter pipe to make things interesting. Come up and check out all the action - it's FREE! And be sure to visit TheIDPC.com for more details and your chance to win one of two sets of VIP passes to the event.
Plan on walking up from the First Time lot to get to the course (be sure to wear snow appropriate footwear), we'll post more details on how to best experience the event shortly!
Thank you for pushing up the landings a bit in Kings. I rolled threw today and they looked much safer and better.
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6:42 AM GMT on February 12, 2013Oh WOW!! That's an impressive mantle and very clear statement to the weather it has endured recently. |
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Oh WOW!! That's an impressive mantle and very clear statement to the weather it has endured recently. |
Incredible! |
Superb capture! |
This is a terrific shot. I've never seen anything quite like this. Amazing!! |
Great shot...I'm in the Boston area girding my loins for the pending onslaught from this same storm |
beautiful shot, what kind of clothes do you have to wear out there? |
Congrats on the VIP & AC Series!!! |
OMG! Reminds me why I spent only one winter in Grand Rapids ('78-'79) and returned to the West Coast; haven't been back since. Thanks for the reminder! :) |
Oh my gosh, what a sight. I'd love to see it. But I would also love to stay in where it is warm! So WU is next best. Thanks for sharing. a Ten. |
Great photo added this to my faves |
Great photo. Old Man Winter has quite a beard! |
That is amazing. Wouldn't want to be where you are taking that picture then the storm is running! |
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OMG do I ever LOVE this photo! Astonishing, amazing weather shot Timothy! (I would have been so excited to be in this stalwart lighthouse during that storm!) THANK YOU for taking this, and sharing!! Really shows the power of the weather! |
Super shot - VIP Congrats! |
Awesome shot ! Congrats on the VIP !!! |
Super shot, imagine how much extra weight has been added to the lighthouse! |
Looks like his whiskers are frozen. |
Very Cool Photo. I looked and should have walked out as the Leeward side wasn't that impressive! Thanks for sharing! |
Too awesome! |
Fantastic image, must be some weight on that structure. |
My goodness! That is real freezing! Thank you for getting out in the weather to take photos. Be careful as you are out and about. Keep posting those GREAT photos! I have never seen it so COLD! Great capture! |
Very interesting what nature can do. |
Great shot. Looks so cold!!!!! |
Fantastic and amazing!!! |
Wow, what a frozen beauty!! Love it!! |
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The Morgan Library and Museum in New York City is holding an exhibit on Renaissance painter Rosso Fiorentino, one of the main characters in my novel-in-progress. Fantasy and Invention: Rosso Fiorentino and Sixteenth-Century Florentine Drawing runs through February 3, 2013, and features one of only three paintings by Rosso in the United States, his Holy Family with Saint John the Baptist (1520). Twenty drawings by other Renaissance artists, including Andrea Del Sarto, Agnolo Bronzino and Giorgio Vasari, complement the painting.
Rosso is considered a leading proponent of the Mannerist movement. Born and trained in Florence, he made a name for himself in Rome before coming to France at the invitation of François I in 1530. He spent the next decade as the French King's Director of Artistic Work, overseeing the expansion and decoration of the château de Fontainebleau. The ornate Galérie François I at Fontainebleau is Rosso's best known extant work. Well-read and richly rewarded by King François, Rosso lived as a wealthy gentleman at Fontainebleau until his mysterious death in 1540 at the age of 46. The New York Times has written a review of the exhibit that includes some details about Rosso's sensational, troubled life.
I'm thrilled to see his work on exhibit here in the United States. He deserves to be better known by the general public. I've previously posted about Rosso and the galérie, his Descent from the Cross, his Pièta, and the Royal Elephant.
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I'm with you, Ghost! We're all crazy - Bear Crazy! I get like that every year. Always finding a reason why we're going to win. Hey, Wanny is a good coach. Hey, Jauron's better than Wanny! Woohoo! Lovie Smith! A real defensive genius! Or Rashaan Salaam looks really good, or Cedric Benson seems like the real deal. Look - We got Moose! But then sooner or later, I get slapped back to reality. With the Bears, it's usually sooner. Until recently. Since Mikey got canned, things are looking better. I have faith in Phil and Marc. Something I haven't had since 1986. I've said it before, but this year truly does look to be a good one. You get that, Mel???
It's not a bread truck I am worried about ... a Cheese Truck! The only way we won't win the NFC North this year!!
I feel the optimism, which is why I would've dropped a LOT of money when the Bears were given 8 wins on the over. I believe they quickly went from 45/1 odds to 25/1 odds for the SB after all of the FA/draft stuff was over, but don't quote me on that. Packers HAVE to be assumed as champs until otherwise proven, like it or not, though. The good thing is the Lions still have a horrible D and the Vikings, unless Bridgewater plays unlike a rookie QB, will probably still be fighting for 8-8, but keep in mind that they're still a very good team. IDK, I think 9-10 wins is realistic, but I wouldn't say anymore than that.


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The United States has responded immediately and generously to Pakistan's call for assistance following the tragic and devastating floods that began July 29. To date, the United States has provided approximately $90 million to support relief efforts in Pakistan, including funding for the operations of the Pakistan National Disaster Management Authority, the UN's emergency relief plan, and the many local and international organizations responding to this disaster. These funds are also being used to provide critical supplies to flood affected populations.
The U.S. is also providing millions of dollars of additional in-kind and technical assistance. We are expanding pre-existing programs in flood-affected areas, providing temporary bridges, and mobilizing significant U.S. military and civilian resources to rescue victims of the disaster and deliver needed supplies. There currently are 18 U.S. military and civilian aircraft in Pakistan and three aircraft based in Afghanistan in support of flood relief operations. U.S. helicopters have evacuated 4,988 people and delivered 524, 213 pounds of relief supplies.
America's response to this tragic flood has been consistent with our humanitarian values and our deep commitment to Pakistan.
Latest Developments:- U.S. Air Force C-130 aircraft, based from Afghanistan, delivered 8 pallets of food and relief supplies from Rawalpindi to Sukkur and Multan today.
- To date, the World Food Program (WFP) has reached 845,033 beneficiaries in Pakistan, and more than 50 percent of food provided to flood-affected families has been provided by the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) through WFP.
- The United States has made up to $30 million in commitments to international organizations and NGOs in support of flood-affected communities across the country. Examples include $11.25 million for UNHCR, $5 million for ICRC and $3 million to WHO.
- A total of 440,928 halal meals were delivered to civilian and military officials in Pakistan within 36 hours of the initial flooding via U.S. Air Force airlift, a contribution of about $3.7 million dollars.
- The U.S. has delivered 1,870 rolls of heavy-duty waterproof plastic sheeting to be used in construction of temporary dry shelter. The sheeting materials are expected to construct shelter for 112,000 people. Some 14,000 blankets were also brought along with a shipment, a total contribution of $977,495.
- Emergency relief items, totaling about $4 million, were delivered to the National Disaster Management Authority (NDMA). The items include: 18 Zodiac rescue boats, 6 water filtration units, 10 water storage bladders, 30 concrete-cutting saws, 12 pre-fabricated steel bridges and a 25kw generator which was provided to the Frontier Scouts-KPk to support their flood relief efforts.
- Working with mGive, Americans are contributing to Pakistan flood relief by texting the word "SWAT" to 50555. The text results in a donation of $10 to the UNHCR Pakistan Flood Relief Effort. Every $10 helps provide tents and emergency aid to displaced families.
- The Government of Pakistan and the Pakistan cellular phone industry are inviting Pakistanis to contribute to the Prime Minister's Fund for Flood Relief beginning August 5 by texting the amount of their donation to "1234."
- American Business Council members in the U.S. and Pakistan have announced contributions to flood relief efforts: Abbott Labs, Agility Logistics, AT&T, Chevron Pakistan, Cisco Foundation, Coca-cola Export Corporation & Coca-Cola Beverages Pakistan Ltd., DuPont, EMC, Johnson & Johnson, Proctor and Gamble, Pfizer Pakistan, 3M, Visa and Wackenhut Pakistan (Pvt.) Ltd.
- The Lahore-based American Business Forum has collected donations from: Coca-Cola, Environment Consultancies & Options, Levi Strauss Pakistan, Kabani & Company, General Electric, Monsanto AgriTech, Al-Bario Engineering, and Netsol Technologies.
- The most effective way people can assist relief efforts is by making cash contributions to humanitarian organizations that are conducting relief operations. Cash donations allow aid professionals to procure the exact items needed (often in the affected region); reduce the burden on scarce resources (such as transportation routes, staff time, warehouse space, etc); can be transferred very quickly and without transportation costs; support the economy of the disaster-stricken region; and ensure culturally, dietary, and environmentally appropriate assistance.
- A list of humanitarian organizations that are accepting cash donations for flood response efforts in Pakistan can be found at www.interaction.org. Information about organizations responding to the humanitarian situation in Pakistan may be available at www.reliefweb.int.
- More information can be found at:
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If you thought the problem with synthetic drugs in our region was gone, you're wrong. Several arrests involving these drugs have been made in the last few days in Hawkins County.
News 5 learned it's a growing problem that officers want to stop before it gets worse.
A quiet fellowship hall at Ross Campground United Methodist Church had a scary visit from a stranger before last Sunday's service. One church member didn't want to give her name but says, "I asked him again what was wrong and he said he had just taken some bath salts."
News 5 picked up a report at the Hawkins County Sheriff's Office and learned after this man left the fellowship hall, he was eventually arrested and officers found an uncapped syringe in his sock. "We've always felt safe and everything, but after that you don't know," said the church member.
But this wasn't the first arrest involving synthetic drugs in Hawkins County this week. Thursday night during a search of Randy Wade Hilton's car, officers found five packages of Panda Repellent, a type of bath salts, with a street value totaling $700.
Hilton faces felony Possession of Controlled Substances with the Intent to Deliver and other drug related charges. Lieutenant Chad Gillenwater with the Sheriff's Office says they found a total of five grams, "Bath salts are typically sold in one-half gram increments for $60 or one gram increments for $120."
But News 5 learned there's a growing trend in Hawkins County of people importing synthetic drugs coming from North Carolina. "Basically what they're doing is going over there buying this for a certain price, and bringing it back," added Lieutenant Gillenwater.
It's illegal in Tennessee and Virginia to possess synthetic drugs and to combat this problem before it gets worse, the Hawkins County Sheriff's Office is working on specific drug patrols, more investigations, and trying to identify the sources and stop suppliers of synthetic drugs. "With everything that they do to come up and get around it, we'll come up with a counter," said Lieutenant Gillenwater.
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Someone submitted a photo of one of the homes in the Heidelberg Project to FailBlog, which spotlights "fails" and other blunders for Internet audiences to mock and deride.
"Um, why does it look like giant seagulls let out giant poops all over that house? Or did a giant bottle of caulk explode? I can't decide which. Help!" writes one FailBlog commenter.
The Heidelberg Project, led by Detroit artist Tyree Guyton, has been the subject of debate since its inception nearly 25 years ago. Hailed as an artistic reflection of urban blight by critics, but simply an eyesore by various city administrators, the project draws nearly 275,000 visitors annually.
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Hannah Griffin was a girl when tragedy struck on her family's farm. She still remembers the flames reflected against the newly fallen snow and the bodies the police dug up—one of them her mother's. It was the nation's worst murder scene in decades, and the killer was never found.
Two decades later, Hannah is a CSI investigating a case of child abuse when the past comes hurtling back. Years of buried questions are brought to life. A killer with unfinished business is on the hunt. And an anonymous message turns Hannah's blood cold: "Your Mom called...."
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"Olsen's flashback narrative shines with lurid, carefully distributed details, and if it ultimately overshadows the present-day plot, his bizarre, many-layered mystery will keep fans of crime fiction hooked." (Publishers Weekly)
"A Wicked Snow"
Hannah Griffin is a social worker with a caseload involving children neglected or abused by families. One day she receives a package at her office addressed to her as Hannah Logan Griffin. She is terrified, because she has not used her maiden name Logan for over 20 years and she didn't know how anyone traced the name to her. When Hannah was a teenager, a fire took place on her family farm which killed her two brothers, and allegedly her mother. Hannah had done her best not to remember her past. Now, someone was forcing her to revisit her past. Hannah had never allowed the full impact of the horror of that night to take hold, so now memories began to surface. Hannah decides that she will not be able to rest until she determines what happened twenty years ago, and whether or not her mother died that night or is still alive. A very good book, action-packed with several twists and turns. This is a new author for me, but I will definitely read more books by him.
"Loved the book, hated the 'ending' spoiler alert"
This book came highly recommended by someone who was currently reading it and was enjoying it very much. I too loved the book. At first. It's hard to find a book where you truly feel invested in all the characters. I thought the heroine was brave, smart, determined and wanted her to find her resolution in the end. Only the ending was a huge let down. I felt like I wasted all those hours waiting to find out what would happen when she finally found and confronted her murderous mom, but that resolution never came. The book was exciting all the way through and then just fizzled out and faded away. I know that in life there sometimes just isn't closure or resolutions, but that's why I read books. I expect a beginning and middle, and an end, but it just felt like the book was cut off. All of a sudden it was just over. Definitely disappointed after such a great read.
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Fast moving, plot continued to keep me glued to it...never a dull moment. I loved it. Can't wait to read more of Olsen.
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I enjoyed listening to this mystery. The reader kept it interesting and the author kept it captivating. It was long, but worth it.
Love a good mystery.
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thought Hanna did not represent a csi or any other law enforcement charactors. she came across as wimpy and not enough comments sense.
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Good story line that had nye really engaged the whole time. I enjoyed the story but wish it had ended differently.
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I didn't know this was a novel and was very disappointed when I found out it was at the end of the book. It's listed under true crimes, so beware if that's what you want. I wouldn't have listened to it if I'd known. That being said, it was a great book.
"A Strange Start That Carries On Through The Book."
I found this story to be different, from the introduction on...
This is well worth a read or a listen, it kept me captivated from start to finish!
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There is a prolific female serial killer who has never been found. She even killed her twin sons and attempted to kill her daughter, before disappearing for good. The daughter managed to stay out of the limelight and grow up healthily, marrying a cop and having her own daughter. Now someone is digging up her past, and implying her mum is coming back.
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Bucketball is a brand-new physics-based game from Arseniy Desrosiers and Florian Himsl. If you've already guessed that the general thrust of the gameplay has something to do with "buckets" and "balls," then congratulations, your amazing brain is way ahead of the curve. It's a simple idea game of skill, but to complete the game is anything but simple.
There is something about Sid Woo's Bounceroid 2000 that makes it so completely JIG-like. Elegantly simple in design, modern, stylish and enjoyable.Bouncing balls against paddles have come a long way, and gone through all sorts of fancy incarnations. This game is back to the basics and has an original take that makes it unique.
In his ongoing, mad quest to give us all nightmares about geometry, Tonypa has unleashed Cobacoli upon the world. It sounds like a deadly bacteria, but no, it's an elegant puzzle game based around 2-dimensional ball physics, although in many ways it qualifies as an infectious disease. Symptoms include intense concentration, swearing, and the inability to pry your hand away from your mouse. Updates include a level select screen and better high score memory.
Moving is quite a hassle. There's no easy way to go about it, no matter how much manpower is on your side. Getting everything into boxes and into a waiting truck takes hours, and who knows how much stuff you might break. In Jig Easy, Sam, you've got about eight minutes to move out, but thankfully you have the miracle of ball physics to aid you in your quest.
In Stranded, you play as a castaway turned fisherman on an almost deserted island. Gather fish by throwing rocks at them, and the natives will reward you with experience to boost your abilities. The timing and soothing music make it a very Zen experience, one that may keep you playing even after you beat it.
The theme of Casual Gameplay Competition #4 was "ball physics", and you can tell that Monsterkodi was taking it seriously. So very, very seriously. You see, in Koogel, you're using six medium-sized balls to indirectly manipulate a bevy of smaller balls, in order to light up a collection of even smaller balls. This all takes place on the surface of one huge ball, displayed on a screen you are watching with your eye-balls.
Mr. MothBall is a classic piece of platforming action: using the arrow keys, roll the hero through each of 21 levels collecting as many points as possible before hitting the exit. As the game progresses, new elements such as gates, switches and push-able blocks are introduced. Its lovable style, finite length and gradually increasing difficulty will persuade most to play it right through to the end.
The Perfect Shot is an action game of skill and finesse created for our 4th game design competition. To play through each of the game's 20 levels, just throw the ball to the goal. It's a ball-tossing game that uses a bit of gestural input to give this entry a bit of english over the others in the field. The result is a game that is well-polished a lot of fun to play.
You're put in control of a medium-sized yellow ball with a mission: destroy the enemy red orbs! Click the mouse to launch the yellow ball in the direction of the pointer, holding the button down for more power. Use the yellow ball like a cue ball to knock the red balls into spikes or holes. There's a timer, so be fast, but be careful too, as you are just as susceptible to the dangers as the red balls! Ice and conveyor belts add another layer of complexity, in ways that are both helpful and hindering.
Why play a game of dominoes when you can line them up and watch them knock each other down? Developer Tom Methven may have been in that exact frame of mind when he created the puzzle game Sky Blocs, the lovechild of youthful domino play and The Incredible Machine. Each level presents you with a starting block (bloc?) and an inventory of pieces to the left-hand side of the screen.
The goal of Fluke Ball is to throw objects into the mysterious waves of force surrounding the office microwave, and knock out your opponent's objects when necessary. It's essentially shuffleboard, but sideways and with gravity. It sounds complicated, and it is at first, but it feels instinctive after some experimentation. And once you break through the layer of initial confusion, you'll have an whole miniature world of strange physics to explore.
In Angular Momentum players are plunged into what looks like a futuristic ant farm and must guide the requisite ball through a series of chambers to the exit. The levels boast twisty, up and down landscapes worthy of Sonic the Hedgehog; tools such as speed boosts and jump platforms will help you reach the exits, but beware of the eeeevil orange panels that will send you back to the start.
An entry from Dom Camus (The Turtles of Time) into our 4th Casual Gameplay Design Competition, Ballrooms plays more or less like a standard table-top pinball game with an added element of exploration. It's sort of a pinball adventure game where you earn points, grab power-ups, and travel between boards via a network of warp holes. The end result is a pinball universe that's as much flipper pounding as it is exploration.
In his ongoing, mad quest to give us all nightmares about geometry, Tonypa has unleashed Cobacoli upon the world. It sounds like a deadly bacteria, but no, it's an elegant puzzle game based around 2-dimensional ball physics, although in many ways it qualifies as an infectious disease. Symptoms include intense concentration, swearing, and the inability to pry your hand away from your mouse.
A great, terrible man once said: "Your flower power is no match for my glower power." That man's name was Charles Montgomery Burns, and he clearly never played Kaichou. The brainchild of Ali Maunder and finalist of our 4th Casual Gameplay Design Competition, Kaichou is an and beautiful abstract shooter where you have to break down bouncing glower with flowery projectiles.
In Entropic Space, no one can hear you smash planets together. It's true, sound does not travel in space, but what does travel are "fun-waves", those mysterious quanta of play that science is just beginning to understand. A submission to our 4th Casual Gameplay competition from Studio Cypher, Entropic Space has you pilot an mega-scale space pod that can bump planets into each other, engineering parsec after parsec into entropy.
Control a ship in a miniature-yet-epic battle against undulating bubbles and their mindless minions. Weave in and out of the bubbles in a race against the clock, dodging drones and collecting enough energy to move on to the next stage. Another excellent and original game design entered into our 4th Casual Gameplay Design Competition.
Rmvblls is a goal-based action game in which the objective is to remove the required number of balls from play. It represents designer Eduardo Omine's first entry into one of our competitions, and hopefully not the last! The CGDC4 Ball Physics theme is implemented in a fairly straightforward manner, with four kinds of balls bouncing around the screen like they're on a pocketless pool table.
Save The Planet is a simple shooter in which you aim with your mouse, and fire by holding the left mouse button and releasing after charging the shot. Use the gravity of the titular planet, as well as that of the attacking aliens and even your own prior shots, to defeat the endless waves of attackers. Keep in mind that you're more likely than not to cause your own destruction by shooting the planet you're trying to defend. Oops.
Coming out of Wildsnake Software, from the chilled steppes of Russia, comes an entry into our 4th Casual Gameplay competition: Chap Hai - Way Of The Dragon. But what is the "Way Of The Dragon"? Does it involve superhuman martial arts, or maybe a method of braising reptile meat? Actually, it involves flicking marbles at each other. It's Zen baby.
Rob Allen continues to impress with Day of the Bobteds, a game in which you must obliterate all of the Bobteds to save the Kingdom of Implements from their menace. What exactly are Bobteds? Ah, if only it were that simple. Bobteds can take the forms of a number of different Earth-objects: barbecue grills, stars, %s, even spinning LOLs!
Factory Balls may be the most immediately appealing entry of JIG's Casual Gameplay Design Competition #4. Maybe it's the elegance of the core concept and the out-of-the-box thinking it provokes; maybe it's the simple awesomeness of making ball-people with rabbit ears. Either way, Factory Balls is a great, albeit short, game that displays the clean design and quirky sensibility that I've come to love in Bart's work.
Imagine the wandering ball of Within A Deep Forest encased in metal and set loose in your browser, and tell me you don't want to get into that Sky Tower. Bug Bug is the latest game to be released from Aqui Griffin's studio, a re-release of a game entered into our "ball physics" game competition in October with crucial improvements.
Space Kitteh is a unique action game created by Zach Archer and Miles Johnson for our fourth Casual Gameplay Design Competition. Run around planets bouncing around in space as you search for lost kittens in distress. As you leap about, gravity toys with your momentum in strange ways. It's a great-looking game with just enough wackiness (saving kitties from planets?) to make it a winner.
As the name suggests, Balancing Act requires you to keep a number of balls (and other ball-ish things) balanced on top of each other. Click on a ball and drag your mouse to rotate it, but remember that each action has an equal and opposite reaction! The stylish and humorous presentation and simple control system are to be particularly commended in this worthy game design competition finalist.
For our 4th Casual Gameplay Design Competition, Brazilian game author Guilherme Töws has tapped the philosophy of yin and yang to bring us Bisection Dominion. Your charge is to defend a pristine river against a falling tide of poisonous bubbles, using a sword controlled by your gestural input. We often talk about the zen of gaming, but rarely does a game embrace the idea so whole-heartedly.
Sheeeeeep!!! Hyper cute (and fuzzy) critters star in Phillip Reagan's Osmosis, an entry to our 4th Casual Gameplay Design Competition. The object of Osmosis is to guide one or more sheep-type "balls" through each stage by drawing symbols that change gravity, friction, or make the sheep move. It blends action and puzzle elements into a webtoy-like atmosphere that's as inviting as it is entertaining.
Contour is a clever re-imagining of Marble Madness by Sean Hawkes, creator of several games entered into previous competitions such as Orbit and Clack. An isometric grid is placed over the playing field that holds a ball and a white exit square. Click on individual tiles to raise the ground from that point, causing the marble to roll downhill. The goal is to move the marble to the exit tile by raising and lowering the floor, a feat that requires both intelligent planning and fast clicking.
Ballistic Wars is a fast-paced, turn-based strategy puzzle game from our 4th game design competition that earned it the third place prize. Work your way through 15 challenging levels against a mad professor bent on blowing up, well, just about everything. Simply click on your "troops", represented by camouflaged balls of varying sizes and special abilities, to launch attacks against the opposing forces.
The aptly named Absolute Awesome Ball Game is truly awesome because it manages to capture the thrill of discovery that we look for from pinball games and delivers that in an addictive, unique and appealing package. The game requires a bit of patience and perseverance before seeing any visible progress, but those that stick with it are in for a very pleasant and enjoyable ride.
It's got action. It's got puzzles. It's got zany... everything. The Tall Stump is an action platformer that feels like an adventure game laced with short puzzles. As you travel through the game you find strange items and learn to use them in even stranger circumstances, all in the name of working your way deeper into the stump. An exceptional game that won best of show in our 4th Casual Gameplay Design Competition, and now follows-up that achievement with being the top platform game in the Best of 2007.
The penultimate entry(!) to the 4th Casual Gameplay Design Competition is from wonderwhy-er of Latvia. Please welcome wonderwhy-er with your kind feedback and constructive criticism in the comments. Nightmare is an action game of fighting monsters with your bare hands. The "ball physics" theme has been implemented within the underlying game engine rather than in the gameplay itself.
The next entry to the 4th Casual Gameplay Design Competition is from Luís Lampreia of Portugal. Please welcome Luís with your kind feedback and constructive criticism in the comments. UFootball is a single-player game of soccer ("football" to most everyone else) that implements the "ball physics" theme well within the ball-based gameplay.
The next entry to the 4th Casual Gameplay Design Competition is from Jerry Liu and Charles Zinn from Ontario (Canada). Please provide your kind feedback for Jerry and Charles in the comments. Two Ball is an open-ended action game in which the objective is to hit the grey ball with the orange swirl ball using the mouse. Alternative control methods are also available. The "ball physics" theme is represented well within the gameplay.
The next entry to the 4th Casual Gameplay Design Competition is from Daniel Vandali of Australia. Bounce is an arcade-style action game in which the "ball physics" theme is well represented by the ball objects in play. The objective is to activate all orange balls in play by knocking into them. Your means of control is a grappling hook, and a few different power-ups to aid you. Avoid the walls.
The next entry up is from Manuel Fallmann of Austria. If you're a regular visitor here, then it's likely you have played a variety of Manuel's games before. Bubbles 2 is an arcade-style action game of collection and avoidance that incorporates a bit of "ball physics" within the bubbles themselves. Please leave your kind feedback and constructive criticism for Manuel in the comments.
The next entry to the 4th Casual Gameplay Design Competition is from David Beers of California (US). Mathematigolf: The CGDC Open is a golf game that includes 3 courses of 10 holes each with terrain that affect "ball physics" in unique ways not usually seen in golf games. Please leave your kind feedback for David in the comments.
The next entry to the 4th Casual Gameplay Design Competition is from Ian Barber and Ben Gray of the UK, and it is their first competition with us. Explode Ball for High Score is an aptly named action game based on a very simple idea and in which the "ball physics" theme is represented well within the gameplay.
The next entry (number 32 in case you're keeping track) is from Eric Whitmire of North Carolina (US). It is Eric's first competition with us, so please give him a warm welcome. Lynz is an action puzzle game with drawing-based gameplay that encompasses the "ball physics" theme. Please provide your kind feedback and constructive criticism for Eric in the comments.
Just past the half-way point, the next entry to the 4th Casual Gameplay Design Competition is from Derek Brandao of Washington (US). Break Into is an action arcade-style game in which you must hit balls into a goal to move on to the next level. The "ball physics" theme in this game is a straightforward implementation with a Gimme Friction Baby twist.
The next entry is another game that comes from Texas (US), this time from Kevin Mintmier and Mutizwa Chirunga representing LTD (Living the Dream) Studios. Decon is a game of chain reactions with a unique twist that implements the "ball physics" theme. Please give Kevin and Mutizwa a warm JIG welcome by providing the valuable feedback and constructive criticism that you do so well in the comments.
The next entry up is from Martin Jonasson of Sweden. And while this is Martin's first competition with us, you may have seen some of his games before here on JIG. Goreblood, for short, is a projectile shooting game in a classic 'defend your castle' setting, except it's a brain you are defending from a horde of zombie nuns.
The next entry up is from Rey Gazu of Argentina. Rey has also participated in our previous competitions with the prize-winning Cyberpunk from CGDC #1, and the remarkable Time Raider from CGDC #3. Spin Ball is a unique arcade style "game" of swinging a spinning ball around to destroy various enemies that differ in their weakness. The rest is for you to discover.
The next entry is a game from a team of developers, three representing Stimunation Games and a couple others from the Flashkit Games forums. JayIsAdventure is an old-school style graphic adventure game with a creative interpretation of the "ball physics" theme. I will say no more than that, the rest is up to you to discover and comment freely about.
The next entry comes from Russia (with love) by another two-person creative team: Eugene Karataev (Flash developer) and Artem Popov (artist). Jabo is an acronym for "Jump And Ball Operation" and it somewhat describes the basic premise of Eugene's and Artem's action game starring a frog with a very long tongue. Use the frog's tongue as a grappling hook to propel yourself towards the shining star. The rest is up to you.
The next entry into our 4th Casual Gameplay Design Competition is an entry from another newcomer to our competitions, this one from Sebastian Mayer of Germany. Asteroid Pilot is an arcade driving, or piloting, game in which "ball physics" have been implemented as part of the design of the player-controlled spaceship. I'll leave the rest up to you to discover and discuss in the comments.
The next entry up is from David Durham of the UK. You may remember David from previous games featured here, the adorable Gear Puzzle from our first competition, and the exceptional Timebot game from our "replay" competition. In Backfire, David delivers an action-based arcade style game with "ball physics" integral to the gameplay. Please post your kind feedback and constructive criticisms in the comments for David.
The next entry into our 4th Casual Gameplay Design Competition is from Jorge Goyco of Texas (US), and this is also his first competition with us. Moon Duster implements different gravitational forces as the basis of its "ball physics" in another game based on a simple idea. Please provide Jorge a generous serving of your kind feedback and constructive criticisms in the comments.
The next entry is from Lopsidation of Maryland (US). A long-time JIG visitor, this is Lopsidation's first CGDC, so please give him a warm welcome with your feedback in the comments. Brownie Motion implements "ball physics" in a game based on a very simple idea that demonstrates a more complex one, too (Brownian motion). Simple to understand, and yet difficult to master. See for yourself.
The next entry is from Damir Srpèiè of Slovenia. You might remember Damir from our first competition with his popular and creative entry, Personal Universe. Roped! implements "ball physics" as well as 'rope physics' in this unique puzzle game that also includes and integrated level editor and save feature.
Hopefully the moment you've all been waiting for. We'll be rolling out the entries in the order we received them. Here is the first entry to our 4th Casual Gameplay Design Competition: Event Horizon by the_Corruptor (Canada). An action game of mouse-play that implements the "ball physics" theme and creates gameplay that revolves around it, literally.


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Bachelorette star Emily Maynards ex-fiance is back in Charlotte, but he says hes not sure if hell see Maynard while hes in town.
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Breastfeeding seems to be more in vogue than ever, thanks in part to the many health benefits it affords both mom and baby (a new study says it boosts infant brain power!), but wearing your milk around your neck takes the trend to a whole new level.
Search for breast milk jewelry on handmade marketplace website Etsy, and 120 items come up, including a do-it-yourself locket and a keepsake pendant, The Associated Press reports.
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Android's 850,000 daily activations puts iOS-first strategy into question
By Chantal Tode
February 28, 2012
Over 1 billion Android apps are downloaded every month
Android continues to grow at a quick pace and is now seeing 850,000 new Android devices activated each day, up more than 250 percent from a year ago.
At the same, interest in Android apps is growing significantly, with Google reporting that has more than 450,000 apps today – compared with 150,000 apps a year ago – and that over 1 billion app downloads are taking place every month. The numbers point to the need for app developers to make Android a significant part of their go-to-market strategies.
"For those developers primarily focused on iOS, today's numbers reaffirm the importance of developing for Android," said Craig Palli, vice president of business development at marketing technology firm Fiksu Inc., Boston. "The fact is there are more Android users and available Android advertising impressions than there are iOS.
"Moreover, as the Android devices are increasing in quality, so is the value of the Android user base," he said. "So much so that many Fiksu clients are shifting budget from iOS to Android and in those cases Android is proving to have a lower cost per incremental loyal user."
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Catching up to iOS
The Android numbers appeared on Google's Mobile Blog in a post by Andy Rubin, senior vice president of mobile and digital content. In it, Mr. Rubin says that the total number of Android devices around world is now over 300 million.
IOS has traditionally garnered the most app downloads in the market. However, Android is quickly catching up and is expected to reach parity with iOS this year.
App developers often create apps for iOS devices first and then roll out apps for Android and possibly other mobile operating systems. However, the new numbers suggest some developers may want to reconsider this strategy.
The Apple App Store currently has over 550,000 apps.
"Android has caught up to iOS and in many ways achieved parity at a minimum," Mr. Palli said. "There are many advantages for developing for Android first, including time to market and user behavior insight.
The company's research of the mobile app marketplace shows that Android users are two times more likely than iOS users to open an app ten times or more.
Other advantages per Mr. Palli include the ability to launch an app and make improvements to an app instantaneously in the Android Market as opposed to having to wait weeks for iOS launches and refreshes.
Additionally, app developers can gain rich user behavior insights on the Android platform, such as how users discover their apps and determine what search terms are most important for user discovery and optimize their marketing communication strategy accordingly.
"Based on the above it is completely rational for App Developers to develop for Android first and then plow those learnings into iOS later," Mr. Palli said. "This is especially true with 850K new daily activations where new users are amongst the most interested in discovering new apps."
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A profile of the Hungarian DP : the interaction of lexicalization, agreement and linearization with the functional sequence
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The theoretical focus of my thesis is the methodology of establishing the hierarchy of functional projections. I argue that four factors influence the hierarchy: mapping to semantics, mapping to phonology, agreement, and linearization. I assume without argument that mapping to semantics follows compositional semantics, and there are no semantically inert heads in syntax. I examine what approach to the remaining three factors is most compatible with this view. I argue for a Nanosyntactic mapping to phonology, a Mirror Theoretic linearization model and the representation of agreement morphemes in the syntax but without dedicated AgrPs. The empirical basis of the thesis is the extended nominal projection in Hungarian. I aim to set up a functional sequence for the Hungarian DP in a way that does justice to both semantic and word order considerations. I identify agreement morphemes in the Hungarian nominal projection and examine how different word order algorithms can derive the surface order from the underlying hierarchy.
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I spent five years finishing a PhD in the biomedical sciences and another six finishing a postdoc before taking a tenure-track academic position.
Eleven years may sound like a long time to be without a "real" job, but through it all I was developing the skills I desired and making discoveries on topics I found fascinating. I had the privilege to work with scientists who valued mentorship and who sought new knowledge with tremendous enthusiasm, intelligence, and creativity. To be sure, there were periods of intense difficulty, but I imagine these were inevitable given that we mustered all we had to pursue our passions. I had fun and would do it again in a heartbeat.
I also believe that the knowledge gained during a PhD is generalizable. The majority of my classmates have left academic science and are successful in a variety of fields. Their success does not surprise me; during the PhD, one learns to think critically, manage projects, work with others, write well, speak clearly, and master technical skills. As for those of us who have continued in academia, we're in a position to keep learning how things work, go wrong, and can be fixed. I think that's a worthwhile endeavor.
I don't mean to discount the experience of our correspondent and acknowledge that the system is not perfect. However, I do think this article was rather one-sided, and that the PhD can be just the start of a highly rewarding path.
As elementary as it sounds, I believe part of the problem (that is, the issue of too many PhD candidates who are frustrated, overqualified, and underpaid) begins with the high school system. I am referring only to conditions in the USA.
Many high schools in the USA encourage seniors to go to college to learn what they enjoy and study what they like, so they then can find a job that they like. In this order, a student first learns what he enjoys STUDYING, as though one will enjoy working in a field if he enjoys the degree program. Students often find that they enjoy studying so much, and perhaps dislike the non-academic application of their chosen major, that they want to study forever, often without ever learning what a full-time, non-academic job in that field looks like each day. In theory, we spend a few years studying, but many more years working. Should we not prioritize picking a career over picking a major?
Reverse this, and encourage high school students to find a job/career/profession they enjoy, shadowing and interviewing professionals in that field, and THEN tell them to pursue a degree that will land them that position.
(Of course, there are many who desire to be teachers and researchers in academia, and they pursue higher degrees because it lands them in their desired job position of teacher/researcher. I am referring above only to individuals who happen upon such a career in order to perpetuate a university lifestyle.)
Pick the job, then pick the major; don't pick the major because you like it, with no concept of what a job in that field is like from day to day.
Tell your high schoolers now, and I guarantee that this will reduce the number of unemployed PhD students in the USA in the next 10 years.
As a Ph.D., and an Executive Coach who works with a lot of current Executives and former Academics, my experience has been that we often undervalue and misinterpret our skills. It is true that almost no one cares about your knowledge of medieval French literature or family social dynamics in New Guinea, BUT the skills that you learn in the process, finding an open niche for investigating, formulating a hypothesis, conducting primary and secondary research, analyzing, writing, and most of all managing one's one time, energy, budget and emotions for a long-haul of a project, is INCREDIBLY valued by the business world, if only we knew to trumpet that part of our experience. That said, perhaps there is a better way to learn such skills...
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I have a doctorate in ecology and have been teaching for almost 20 years at a university. I did not find much surprising in this article, except this statement: "Your correspondent was aware of [the drawbacks of doing a PhD] over a decade ago while she slogged through a largely pointless PhD in theoretical ecology." If it was so pointless, why did she pursue it? Admitting such a negative bias towards achieving a PhD (in my field, no less), while an appropriate disclosure, led me to wonder whether her report was "fair and balanced." Nonetheless, I coach our students to think very carefully about whether to get a Master's or a PhD right away. Getting a Master's leaves more doors open, including earning a PhD later. A PhD means, as the article indicates, spending one to several years as a post doc in order to compete for limited university positions. You have to be motivated to want to achieve that specific goal -- and one way to find out if you have that motivation is to get a Master's. That's exactly what I did and I did discover that I had the motivation. Like her, I knew the rules of the game -- and played it without too much whining.
Maybe I haven't read this piece carefully enough, but in my view there are three points missing:
1) Large parts of the world still have a marked economy, thank god, meaning that a career with a PhD degree will be affected by supply and demand.
2) There seems to be little differentiation between hard science, soft science and voodoo PhDs in this piece. See point 1.
3) Even though the PhD degree still has an aura of authority and knowledge, needless to say there are a lot of incompetent people holding a PhD.
This is an economic blog, so we should examine the PhD from an economic perspective and not by an emotional standpoint.
Usually demand and supply determine the price of a good. Unfortunately, there are too many PhDs out there, and thousands of brand-new PhDs are entering the market every day.
Despite the objective facts of a over-supply, still many people want to do a PhD. None of them believes to fail.
The answer for this irrational behaviour is quite simple. Just look what Napoleon Bonaparte thought about it.
"A soldier will fight long and hard for a bit of colored ribbon."
So maybe a PhD can be considered as to be today`s ribbon.
I recommend this:
"I have known more people whose lives have been ruined by getting a Ph.D. in physics than by drugs. "
"As examples, consider two of the leading candidates for a recent Assistant Professorship in my department. One was 37, ten years out of graduate school (he didn't get the job). The leading candidate, whom everyone thinks is brilliant, was 35, seven years out of graduate school. Only then was he offered his first permanent job (that's not tenure, just the possibility of it six years later, and a step off the treadmill of looking for a new job every two years). The latest example is a 39 year old candidate for another Assistant Professorship; he has published 35 papers.In contrast, a doctor typically enters private practice at 29, a lawyer at 25 and makes partner at 31, and a computer scientist with a Ph.D. has a very good job at 27 (computer science and engineering are the few fields in which industrial demand makes it sensible to get a Ph.D.). Anyone with the intelligence, ambition and willingness to work hard to succeed in science can also succeed in any of these other professions."
"Suppose you do eventually obtain a permanent job, perhaps a tenured professorship. The struggle for a job is now replaced by a struggle for grant support, and again there is a glut of scientists. Now you spend your time writing proposals rather than doing research. Worse, because your proposals are judged by your competitors you cannot follow your curiosity, but must spend your effort and talents on anticipating and deflecting criticism rather than on solving the important scientific problems. They're not the same thing: you cannot put your past successes in a proposal, because they are finished work, and your new ideas, however original and clever, are still unproven. It is proverbial that original ideas are the kiss of death for a proposal; because they have not yet been proved to work (after all, that is what you are proposing to do) they can be, and will be, rated poorly. Having achieved the promised land, you find that it is not what you wanted after all."
And, if you do find a job in the industry, chances are your future will depend on a clueless golden boy manager. It's really a "lions for lambs" situation. And yes, I do have a science Ph.D. and , at least for now, a good, but not terribly related, non-academic job. And I still do science work, both publishing and refereeing.
A number of fundamental points concerning the role of PhD studies are raised in "The disposable PhD" (December 18th - 31st 2010). These issues are delicate and cannot be done justice in a few hundred words. Yet, I felt compelled to provide alternatives to the provocative arguments put forward in this article.
A PhD is an apprenticeship. It prepares the candidate for specialized academic life, but also provides generic competences which are essential to a successful career in any field: adaptability and ability to think out of the box; independent learning; critical quantitative analysis and communication; stress and pressure management. This is evidenced by the number of PhDs from my class at Northwestern University who became management consultants for the most choosy firms in the market or applied research leaders in the private sector.
A PhD is also a competitive soul-finding exercise igniting intestine strife at the frontier of one's intellect and resilience. Dispirited candidates are therefore indeed frequent. Yet, what is key is not merely the end product, the actual research performed, but the learning process involved. Those who make it have faced their limits and learnt how to learn, which is invaluable.
Questions do remain. How much of the aforementioned skills ought to be provided by higher education itself? Are PhDs used by today's mass-education system to complement the failures of an insufficiently rigorous Bachelor/Master tandem? Would public money be more wisely invested if fewer attended universities? Would this increase in the entry-level requirements for PhDs raise the productivity of graduates and a country's competitiveness?
The quickest way to bring total silence to a room of senior professors at a university is to bring up this subject.
As is so often the case, the writer here completely overlooks the area of gender in the case of doing a PhD. Similar to careers in law, journalism and medicine, women in academia continue to feel forced to end their careers -- at least tenure track careers which are the only ones that pay anything -- once they have children due to the demands on time. Only a small minority of women with young children obtain tenure (at least in North America). So, once again, women are doubly penalized as the "disposable" academic -- and end up largely relegated to that slave labour, part-time academic work force, where you are paid peanuts for class room hours attended ignoring the numerous hours spent on prep and marking -- to say nothing of the inability to participate in meaningful research or obtain job security since they need to re-apply for each position each semester. Really fabulous use of brain power and time and money spent.
As a PhD candidate (ABD), I too find this artcile depressing, thanks... There is a missing part of the story, many university and college positions are filled with adjunct instructors which makes securing a tenured track faculty position very difficult. Many universities and colleges will not hire a PhD without any research or teaching experience, think about it, why would they? If you have a PhD and you want a job in academia, it is not impossible to find work.
If your goal is to maximize your income, then doing a PhD might probably be a waste of time.
However, this insight is trivial and well known. Therefore, motivations of students doing a PhD are numerous, but they certainly are not to maximize your income, otherwise they would go for investment banking or a management consulting.
So the question that comes to mind: what the heck is the point of this article?
1. A phd is to discover something in science not to find a job.
2. Apparently phds are awarded too easily since if all these graduates were capable of producing meaningful scientific research they would have jobs. No surprises here as universities are businesses today more than research centers.
3. You can make meaningful discoveries without a phd today and get a good education from reading wikipedia. In many cases universities are not worth the money they are asking for. Perhaps you don't have a choice in medicine but knowledge and research are free in computer science, journalism, finance, mathematics.
Ran0's comment on Ivy League colleges is totally irrelevant to the problems in question: massive quantities of students joining and getting PhD's. The Economist is addressing a big international social problem: college education is no longer getting people moving up because the colleges have saturated the professional market. Nobody argues that Ivy League PhD's get jobs, but people who get those degrees are an absolute minority. Besides, I dare to argue how good Ivy League degrees get great jobs until a professional survey proves it. Meanwhile, we're only relying on assumptions (i.e. prejudices) and the same goes in the rest of nations with their own stuffy colleges.
I won't bother you with my own experiences. Instead I'll direct you to read career articles of the Chemical & Engineering News magazine web site. They're pathetic! Or even better, if you want a more general and short overview, read a small part of the book "OverSuccess: Healing the American Obsession With Wealth, Fame, Power, and Perfection" by Jim Ruben. After hearing my whole life how few students major in science or get advanced degrees, he was the first writer that I found exposing the truth. It couldn't be a famous author of course, colleges want their business going on! He could only cover the situation in America, but we can skip that by remembering this is the best job market in the world, this is how bad PhD's have it.
And regarding Albert Dutch (and the likes) scoffing The Economist's author and showinf off his own wonderful experience, keep on mind that this is a serious forum, not a think-positive-and-get-rich bogus site. Unrealistic and irrational positivity like yours is part of the reason why the real state crisis (and many more crisis) happened: neglect of reality based on how good a few people do.
I praise The Economist for being the first major media member to denounce this problem and the corruption of all colleges that have created it for their own profit.
Favorite quote heard while physics graduate student, attributed to distinguished faculty member:
"If you make your grad students miserable, you can get an extra 10% out of them."
My comment is so late on this thread I doubt I'll get much traction but here goes...
I have an opposite problem. For personal reasons -- a sick, widowed mother (no kidding), a husband whose business is firmly rooted to one place -- I was never able to pursue a PhD. I managed to earn two master's degrees while I was working. I spent the last three years at this vaunted Harvard U I hear so much about here writing papers... and having credit stolen from me, or given to me grudgingly, or given to the PhD who was supposedly the "Research Director" but has no intellectual drive, curiosity or creativity.
I was too much of a threat to what had been predetermined was The Truth -- that PhDs were automatically smarter than everyone else -- and so I was given the boot. While I derive some measure of joy watching the program get nowhere, if more secure in their egos and their fashioning of the world, it pains me that just because someone had the resources and opportunity to diddle around for years and earn an advance degree they are crowned 'smart'.
I think we all know a PhD or two who is not the brightest bulb on the tree, who took ten to twelve years to write a treatise on a tiny aspect of Eastern European art, and who wield their degree like a weapon, or a shield to hide behind. OK, that describes my last Research Assistant, who earned her PhD in '07 and couldn't find a job.
If all learning is in essence self-taught, why is it that very bright individuals without degrees are not allowed to flourish in the Academy? It's a self-perpetuating country club system of privilege and honor that serves the notion of higher education, if not the reality of intelligence. I know a woman who did wonderful work but was not allowed a professorship... until she started winning lucrative grants on the side (that 20% "external activity" wriggle room many universities permit).
in India, PhD means a degree that renders its holder typically physically handicapped. means PhD can not do physical work or feels shame to do the same. PhD becomes nearly sold degree. you do not need even to stay for required time for PhD in so many universities of India. you can find person with PhD working as servant/labour, waitor either because of unemployment or bogus degree.
Here we have an interesting article, rather cynical, giving an interested view of a real problem. Though some questions posed by the author are to be considered, most of it constitutes part of the cycle that we are suffering nowadays in most industrialized countries: discredit-deregulation-privatization of public bodies... Here, the author is clearly bombing the educational system from the top: the process of generation of academics and researchers...
PhD's and researchers are frequently uncomfortable persons... No doubt, it would be easier to hangle ignorants.
The World has advanced following the steps of academics and researchers, and such advances have been colosal through the last century. This has only been possible thanks to this system. The problem is that the acquisition of knowledge is a slow process, and we now want everything inmediately... Because of this, researchers are force to produce in an exagerated manner all kind of scientific products: papers, PhD's, etc.
In Brazil, PhD means a good chance for increase salaries in public service...and not much more.
Here, it's a kind of tradition: In monarchy old times, the first son was raised for run family business and the next one was educated for have a position in public service. Many political and economical crises after, from the first son to the last one are educated for have a public position and start a public service "career"(typed in absence of better word). A good reason for the above is that public server has professional stability, i.e., she/he hardly can be fired.
After decades of economical crises, stability has turn the great attractive of public service in spite of salaries have lowered; curiously a public service position has turn a symbol of high status in a country where a job was something hard to find and even hard to keep. Dangerous combination: Govern does not push employees for results and employees do not push Govern for better salaries.
Due to the economical stabilization in the middle of the last decade, modernity finally has arrived in Brazil: Modern cars, modern phones, modern PC's and a modern public service. Modern management techiniques have been introduced in the Brazilian Govern and one of such techniques for pursue magic numbers comprised a rewarding program for increase public service educational profile and attract high qualified brains. Now, one can find MSc, DSc and PhD (and many other acronyms)people in many positions of Govern careers even if a high educational qualification is not necessary for fulfill position requirements. All the above is because public server is still hard to be fired and, very rare exceptions apart, private sector is not able to absorb such professionals paying the same or equivalent salaries. Private sector in Brazil does not perform or ever invest in research. In Brazil, technology still comes from the outside.
Ok, now we have high grad guys in the Govern, ok they have good salaries, but what about the results? One can say: "Look, Brazilians are strong in agriculture and alternative fuels", yes but in agriculture most part of efforts are directed to soy and sugar cane crops and then for exportation. Necessary crops are neglected and in many cases we have to import. If "feijão com arroz" were animals, they can be placed in the endangered species list; a simple bread is expensive. The same can be seen for alternative fuels. We are the ethanol fuel best producer and state of the art technology holder, but the price of the fuel is high and we have to deal with ethanol fuel supplies reduction (as occurred last year) just for meet exportation contracts.
In the university I've learnt about differential equations and more: most of problems depend on multiple variables and not on a single one. Development is a multiple variable problem which Brazil insists to solve considering only one of these.
Other national needs are still neglected.
Thank you, Economist. This article makes me feel much better about abandoning my Phd pursuits in engineering from Berkeley in the mid-1970s, and pursuing industrial research in energy for commercial entities. I do respect those who complete such a degree, and indeed hope - if academic teaching is what you desire - that all go forth and proposer. But the additional 2-3 years beyond the coursework to prepare for and pass the oral exam, complete the experimental work, and doing all the things to stay on the right side of the faculty did not seem worth the effort.
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